Movie Discussion! - Page 306

Like the future one was about how the individual is important and there is a human element to everything. But they also introduced a theme that no one had any freedom, that from birth they are reliant on others and not free from them.

The racism story was about a white man starting to learn that blacks are people like them and that there was no justification for some people to be born and punished for their entire lives. Then they added the theme at the end that even if an individual's impact on the world is small as to be a droplet in an Ocean, an Ocean is just a collection of droplets.

The superstitions tribal story didn't seem to have a theme for me. People died in raids in the past and a futuristic society crash landed and breeded with them?

The 70s crime scene story seemed to be a mystery movie about uncovering a political plot that would change the face of US energy.

The music story seemed to just be about some old kook trying to bum work off his apprentice.

I think the movie had great scenes and it probably took a lot of talent to make 5 movies fit into one, and to tell 5 stories in such a short time span, but they didn't need to do it like this. They should have just shown the direct impact of one person's decision on the life of another. It seemed like a movie designed to fish for Oscars rather than to be thought provoking.

There was also no need to give a character in each story a birthmark. Is the director an otherkin believer?

So the author does believe in past lives. That makes the birthmark thing make more sense. I don't believe in other lives but it makes the movie better for people with a different set of beliefs.

I don't think there's any indication that the black slaves from the first story line were reincarnated as the black people from the last storyline. The character with the key birthmark were always good and usually very privileged. But still one of them ended up being bred just to be a restaurant waitress. What did she do in a past life to justify that?

Another thing that bothered me was how cloned people were used as food. That's been done in other works like "A Modest Proposal". There's another book that started with a stillborn baby being recycled for their potassium, can't remember the name. Usually it's only done as satire or because of overpopulation. The movie said that the recycled people were a cheap source of protein. That makes no sense and broke my suspension of disbelief. People are expensive to feed as they take a while to reach maturity and are usually not feeding on just vegetation so they're tier 2 animals. The sea levels seemed a bit too high too. Like where did the water all come from to flood up to the height of Seoul's present day skyscrapers? The ice caps?

Cinna gets taken away. Gale's whippings and scars are actually shown. People get impaled by spears and develop nasty bumps. I think you should enjoy it for what it was. A decent sequel.

Also my little brother is a doodoohead

The big bad monster starts rampaging through San Francisco and we see protagonist's wife running away from the destruction, only to have Godzilla show up on the other end of the street. She turns and runs towards a subway station on the left side of the street and the camera follows her as Godzilla and the big bad clash into each other behind her, then the door closes. We are then treated to another 10-20 minutes of talking before we finally see the monsters fight in a completely different scene.

In a movie billed to be about giant monsters fighting, we get maybe 15-20 minutes total of that in a roughly 2 hour movie. The rest of it is the most boring, bog standard, cliche'd disaster movie I've ever seen with a military fetish that makes Michael Bay cream his pants.

If all you want and care about is giant monsters fighting then guess what? Pacific Rim is the perfect movie for you. The fact that they don't drown you with monster fight scenes already makes it better then Pacific Rim and also because whats the point of having tons and tons of fight scenes throughout the movie if it isn't going to mean jack shit until the end? In Pacific Rim they just drown you in monster fights after monster fights after monster fights. There is no sense of tension when the monsters are on screen in Pacific Rim but in Godzilla there is. Because they don't drown us with Godzilla and the monsters in the movie is because each appearance they make has that much more of an impact. Also, Godzilla is not billed to be about giant monsters fighting. That is also Pacific Rim which got boring REAL fast.

Godzilla is about experiencing the destruction and the horror that these monsters cause from a human perspective. You either experience the fighting from the news on the TV, on the ground, or in a helicopter flying around.

As an old Godzilla fan this movie was fucking perfect for me and I understood what they were doing and why.

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Despite being a sci fi fan, and having read Dick's work, I never actually gave blade runner a run through. Watched it a few nights ago and glad I did. Was interesting. The world is pretty wonderfully realized and you get a pretty intense sense of place, even after all these years. The pacing was a bit unusual for an 80's movie, but the 'antagonist' was great and it was easy to watch.

Here's hoping rumors of a sequel die a quick, painless death.

Y'know, I haven't seen this movie since it was released. I was 12. Even when I was 12, I knew it wasn't very good. So having found a high definition / remastered version and enough marijuana to sedate a small yak, my friend and I set out to watch it all the way through.

I'm not going to rip this movie apart, because its had 15 years of that already. To be honest, I actually enjoyed most of it up until the midway mark. The opening is set, quite pointlessly and heavy-handedly, somewhere involving something-something trade-disputes. Stuff starts blowing up, things get a bit spicy, and we learn that robots are evil and these weird Asian-sounding aliens are up to no good.


"They've gone up the ventilation shaft!"


The pacing is actually pretty good. Liam Neeson is kind of a boss, when he's not busy explaining medichlorians for no apparent reason. The acting is stiff and dialog is awful, blah blah, the usual -- but y'know, it was the same with the original 3. Lets not forget that.



Unfortunately, this movie does not have a Harrison Ford to man up and save the middle of this thing. And that's really where this falls apart. Precisely when we are subjected to 45 minutes of anakin and pod racing.

But then things get better when theres more battling and stuff and some jar jar antics (he's like chewbacca but not as interesting or funny and he sounds kind of rastafarian for some reason). And, in this movie's defense, it has some iconic star wars, as in, wars in the stars.


Wooohooooo!!! Yeeee-hawww! Got'em!

This kind of thing, its campy but fun. It sucks that this time around it involves a really obnoxious child-actor, but the elements were there.

That kind of serves to highlight my thoughts on this movie in general -- it had the recipe and formula down. It had the pacing, it had the scenes, it wasn't going to be amazing by any means, but it could have been a 'return of the jedi'. But it all kind of falls apart on the shoulders of a kid who should be worried about kid things, not saving a franchise.